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Lord Shore of Stepney; Trade Minister, 77

Lord Shore of Stepney, a former minister who fiercely opposed Britain's entry into the European Economic Community, died here on Monday. He was 77.

As Peter Shore, he was a minister under two Labor prime ministers, Harold Wilson and James Callaghan. When Mr. Wilson was re-elected in 1974, Lord Shore was made trade secretary and began to renegotiate Britain's joining the European group.

He often said the Common Market, having started as a trade partnership, would develop into a great political entity that would eventually overwhelm its member states.